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LUC VANIER

Professor

College of Fine Arts

Orcid identifier0000-0002-8735-907X
  • Professor
    College of Fine Arts

BIO

Luc Vanier @integralmovementresearch (MFA, M.AMSAT, MSDE) teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in ballet, somatics, pedagogy and interactive technology at the University of Utah where he is a Professor of Dance. He is also the Training Course Director of Salt Lake City Alexander Technique (SLCityAT). As a pedagogue and integral researcher, Luc has written, lectured and presented his research extensively nationally and internationally and his co-authored book “Dance and the Alexander Technique” was published by University of Illinois Press and recently in Spanish with Pequeña Hoja. He founded the Integral Movement Research Center, and co-created Framework for Integration, a movement analysis system anchored in the way babies and animals move that helps all movers make new, healthier movement decisions and encourages more coordinated and integrated bodily use (upcoming book, Moving into Skill: A Framework for Integration Summer 2025)

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Professor
    College of Fine Arts1 Aug 2016 - present

DEGREES

  • MFA, Dance
    University of Illinois2001

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Alexander Technique Teacher
    Urbana Center for the Alexander TechniqueMay 2001 - present
  • Alexander Technique Training Course Cirector
    SLCityATMay 2010 - present